{"id":7294,"date":"2010-10-05T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7294"},"modified":"2010-10-05T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:45:49","slug":"voter-anger-up-campaign-contributions-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7294\/voter-anger-up-campaign-contributions-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter Anger Up, Campaign Contributions Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/october_2010\/voters_not_shelling_out_to_help_candidates_this_year \" target=\"_blank\">a revealing analysis<\/a> the researchers at <em>Rasmussen Reports<\/em> found that although voter anger at the political class is at record highs, campaign contributions from individuals are drying up.\u00a0 Why would people fed up with the political system not be pouring money into contested races?\u00a0 Probably because the memory of Republican free-spending is still so fresh in the public\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/october_2010\/voters_not_shelling_out_to_help_candidates_this_year \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rasmussen<\/em> telephone survey<\/a> found that while most of the respondents thought campaign contributions are important to winning, they think a candidate\u2019s political positions is the ultimate deciding factor.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.\u00a0 For candidates running this year it sounds like voters are expecting ideological purity to trump fundraising prowess.\u00a0 Hopefully, they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a revealing analysis the researchers at Rasmussen Reports found that although voter anger at the political class is at record highs, campaign contributions from individuals are drying up.\u00a0 Why would people fed up with the political system not be pouring money into contested races?\u00a0 Probably because the memory of Republican free-spending is still so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,1270,1758],"class_list":["post-7294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-rasmussen-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}